I have a friend here in PR who you can help if you have the time.
He is a Canadian, with an American fiance. She has been turned back at the border twice. He is dealing with a lawyer now, and his MP, but I don't know whether there is anything else to be done. You could probably tell him. He is a really nice guy, a writer. He also has a day job, I'm not sure what. And no, he's NOT the other xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (I think the other one is dead, anyway.)
He's the kind of guy that you would really like, feisty and smart:
xxxxxxxxxxxx
[email protected]
Perhaps you could send him some newsletters, or open a dialog.
Thanks,
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david ingram replies:
Your friend's fiancée needs a "border kit" for her visits to Canada assuming that she is just coming to visit at this time.
If she is coming to 'live' with him, she is inadmissable without a visa and there is no fiancée visa to come to Canada since June 22, 2002.
Unless she gets a work visa, she will not be able to enter without a ministerial permit (which the MP may be able to get) as a visitor unless she can prove to the person at the border that she is here as a temporary visitor and intends to return to the US soon. Soon is likely two or three weeks.
She needs a border kit to prove she is intending to return. the following is from one of the old newsletters.
You need a "Border Kit" to facilitate your entry to Canada or the US and prove to the US people that you live in Canada, that you work in Canada and are returning to Canada and not trying to move to and live in the USA and/or to the Canadian people that you live in the US, work in the US and are returning to the US and not intending to live and work in Canada at this time.
This kit would consist of a 3 ring binder containing items like:
* copies of your last three year's tax returns
* copy of the lease or ownership papers of your residence
* copy of your driver's licence
* copy of your car registration
* letter from your employer stating your job and that she / you work in Canada or the USA
* copy of video club memberships
* copy of club memberships
* copies of phone bills
* copies of utility bills
* copies of Insurance policies
* copies of anything that indicates you are intending to return to your home country in a short period of time. * letter from your employer stating where you work.
This is not everything by any means but should be looked at as a minimal amount of documentation to have.
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If the fiancée does not have a home or a job in the USA or is enrolled at a university course she is returning to in September, it is unlikely she will be allowed in.
The USA does have a Fiancée visa which takes anywhere from 3 months to a year to get. It requires them to be physically married within 90 days of the entry of the Fiancée to the USA.
The US does NOT recognize common-law, same sex or conjugal unions, but 'Any' of these will qualify for entrance to Canada. Your friend can not sponsor a fiancée. However, if they have been together in a conjugal relationship for a year or more or have lived in a common-law union for year or more, he could sponsor her by filling in the following paperwork. of course, if they get married, he can do the same.
This older question will give the documents necessary to sponsor her if they are already in a conjugal or common-law union of a year or more or if they decide to get married.
